If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.